This book is a comprehensive collection of the letters of Johannes Brahms. Over 550 are included, virtually all uncut, and there are over a dozen published here for the first time in any language. The letters in this volume range from 1848 to just before his death. They include most of Brahm's letters to Robert Schumann, over a hundred letters to Clara Schumann, and the complete Brahms-Wagner correspondence. They are joined by a running commentary to form an absorbing narrative, documented with scholarly care, provided with comprehensive notes, but written for the general music lover. The work is generously illustrated, and contains several detailed appendices and an index. --From publisher's description.Meer lezen...

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This English-language collection of Brahms's letters contains over 550 letters, including more than a dozen previously unpublished in any language. The letters are woven together with an extended biographical narrative, and span the entire life of the composer.Meer lezen...

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Avins and Josef Eisinger provide very sensitive and readable translations, and the content is brought fully to life by the excellent production ... This book will certainly stimulate many fresh ideas about the composer and his world, as well as provide a rich source of quotation for years to come Music and Letters Occasionally a book comes along which changes perceptions of its subject. This is such a book. Her annotations are not only scholarly but often witty and always full of common sense. The translation is lively ... Wherever you read in these 858 pages, you will feel you are in Brahms's world and that he is speaking to you Michael Kennedy, The Sunday Telegraph Until I read this long, richly informative book - the first substantial edition of his [Brahms] letters to be published in English - I never felt much curiosity about Brahms David Cairns, The Sunday TimesMeer lezen...

"This book is a comprehensive collection of the letters of Johannes Brahms. Over 550 are included, virtually all uncut, and there are over a dozen published here for the first time in any language. The letters in this volume range from 1848 to just before his death. They include most of Brahm's letters to Robert Schumann, over a hundred letters to Clara Schumann, and the complete Brahms-Wagner correspondence. They are joined by a running commentary to form an absorbing narrative, documented with scholarly care, provided with comprehensive notes, but written for the general music lover. The work is generously illustrated, and contains several detailed appendices and an index. --From publisher's description."@en